Learningcomputer.com Introduction to Microsoft Word 2007 Page Layout Tab

Overview  The Page Layout Tab lets you control the look and feel of your document in Microsoft Word 2007  This is more at the page level as opposed to the element level  You can apply a global design to your file by using one of the available Built-In themes and color schemes  Using the Page Layout Tab, you can also change the document orientation, page size, margins, indentation, line spacing and paragraph settings

Themes Group – Page Layout Tab  Themes are pre-defined and they let you transform the entire design using a combination of colors, font styles and formatting effects  Themes in Microsoft Word 2007 won't apply to the text that does not have a style applied to it  First you will need to use the Home tab to pick one of the Style options like Headings, Sub headings, etc.  You can also click Change Styles and select a Style Set for the whole document in Home tab  We will change our document sections to Heading 1 and then apply Concourse Theme instead of Metro

Themes Group – Continued  We can modify color by using the Built-In Theme Colors  When you select this command, you will get a drop down list of several choices, we’ll pick the Office color  The last change I am going to do is apply one of the Theme Fonts  This will leave the color scheme in place and just adjust the fonts. I will switch from Concourse to Trek option  Notice these changes do not affect the body text as we do not have a style applied to it

Page Setup Group  Using the Page Setup tab, we can modify the structure layout of our paper with things like margins, page size, orientation, line numbers etc.  We will modify the Definition Assignment paper as follows:  Change from Normal margins to Narrow  Modify the orientation from Portrait to Landscape  Split the page into two columns instead of one  Add Automatic Hyphenation option

Page Background Group  Moving on to the next group which is the Page Background Group  Here you can select features like Watermarks, Page Colors and Borders  For confidential or privacy type documents, you may want to use a Watermark  Page Colors may be beneficial if you are creating a marketing or an eye catching article  Borders help add a professional touch to your document  Lets see these options in action

Paragraph Group – Microsoft Word  The Page Layout Tab also lets you control indentation in your document using the paragraph group  The indent determines the distance of the paragraph from either the left or the right margin  I found a quotation in my paper for indentation. I will use maybe 0.5 inch indent from the left and right margin  The quote seems to be a little too close to the regular document text. I would like to add 18 pt (point) spacing to the top and bottom of this quote also

Arrange Group  This will let you control the arrangement of other elements in your document  Let us say we need to add a picture to our Definition Assignment paper  Next we will try the options:  Text Wrapping  Position  Align

Summary  We covered the following Page Layout options in Microsoft Word 2007:  Themes  Page Setup  Page Background  Paragraph  Arrange  If you need more information on Page Layout Tab, please visit this page:  ut_tab.html